Letters, notes, and fragments from New York State luminaries | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Routine letters and notes signed by famous New Yorkers, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Stone Blackwell, William Henry Seward, Russell Sage, Moses Coit Tyler, Jacob Gould Schurman, and Edward Eggleston. The letter from Stanton and one of the notes from Schurman is a fragment. Stanton's letter expresses her reaction to the tributes received on her 70th birthday. The letter from Seward (1864), written on Department of State letterhead, is addressed to Charles Sumner, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. The longer of Schurman's two notes (1891) is a cover letter for an announcement issued by Cornell's new School of Philosophy, addressed to the editor of the Philosophical review